#VWEDU Notes for the
entrepreneurial educator.
The new breed of educator: Entrepreneurial. Some of what educators do in the normal course of their work produces things and skills of value to other educators and to other educational institutions. Or those things would be of value if they were marketed
- Watch on YouTube
- The international ED TECH blog
- Educational Entrepreneurship Facebook
- Teachers pay teachers
- MoocLab
What is an entrepreneur?
- "Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business." -- Wikipedia
- Nothing about making a lot of money.
- Nothing about quitting your day job.
- It is all about initiative. All about an enterprising person
- Enterprising: marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act.
- Maybe just right for educators who develop useful products and skills.
- Part time work is especially suited to educators who get laid off in the summer.
- Especially since the internet lets people do business from home.
Develop your credentials (Build your rep)
Produce and sell online instructional materials
- Teachers pay teachers: an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original educational materials.
- Covers: k-12, higher education, adult education.
- Covers: All common subject areas.
- Prices: Free, below $10, $10 and up.
- Resource types: Assessment, Google apps, Unit plans, Interactive notebooks, Math centers, Games
- I think schools should be paying for teaching materials.
- And some are: TPT for schools.
- This market already accepts online content: Google apps
- It might be ready for web-worlds.
- The pricing here would not cover live assistance.
- But it could cover an interactive web-world where the teacher could teach.
- It be a shared place that teachers use for Team teaching (Wikipedia).
- Or where students participate in collaborative learning.
- MoocLab
- Sell Courses Online - Turn Your Expertise Into Cash: MoocLab
- Next education
- GetEducated
Entrepreneurial educators
- Multiverse masters in Kitely
- Interactive eLearning: 4 Ways to Challenge Your Learners
- Immersive Education Initiative
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Class Tech Tips
- GetEducated Consumer's guide to online education
- EcoMUVE
- 12 Quests of the Month: Classcraft celebrates our heroic teachers!
- Free Trial for Collaborative Curriculum Measuring Tool
Living online
- Freelancer
- Upwork: Freelancers
- Five Ways to Quadruple Your Blog’s Income
- 10 Ways For Retirees To Earn Extra Cash – No Surveys!
- Working at Home as a Social Media Moderator For Lithium
- Is anyone teaching these skills?
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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